Grok Bot's new features push it deep into workplace territory

Google now holds three of the top four slots on this voice benchmark, pushing xAI's TTS down to third as enterprise voice-AI contracts get decided on exactly these scores.

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS takes the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Pronunciation Robustness benchmark at 89.5%, ahead of Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS at 88.2%, SpaceXAI TTS at 87.6%, and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS at 87.4%. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS leads on Contextually Appropriate https://t.co/6d0KJ2rlHW

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If the core bond sleeve now rises on only 40% of S&P 500 down days, the classic 60/40 cushion is not doing the job investors are paying it for.

Hard to blame investors either given AGG hasn't kept up with inflation AND cannot be trusted to hedge stocks as it is now less likely than in the past to post a gain on days when the S&P 500 falls. It used to go up 90% of time SPY down. Now it's 40%. Major development. https://t.co/FUPYZYiZLX

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Bloomberg's ETF analyst says the bond sleeve investors think they own has quietly shrunk to 16% of ETF assets, with buffers, covered calls and gold/bitcoin taking the slack.

The 60/40 is more like 80/15/5 today as fixed income ETFs now make up only 16% of total ETF assets, down from 23% in 2020. Further, they only make up 10% of new launches. Equities are 80% and then buffers, covered call and gold/btc are crowbarring their way in with the remainder. https://t.co/zPz1GpVmtF

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Google taking the top pronunciation spot on an independent benchmark puts Alphabet in direct pricing contention with ElevenLabs and OpenAI for the voice layer of every AI agent being built right now.

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS debuts at #1 on our Pronunciation Robustness Benchmark and #2 on our Provider Voice Arena Leaderboard Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are @GoogleDeepMind's latest Text https://t.co/4RnbbjO0fe

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Bloomberg's ETF analyst is putting a number on the cost of trading the doom headlines: 34% in 22 months for anyone who just held the S&P 500 index fund through AI bubble talk and Fed hikes.

COYOTE VS SPX: Wrote today about how this market is so akin to the Road Runner cartoon, as the S&P 500 cheerfully eludes each new alarmist narrative thrown at it by the Doomers w/ AI Fears and Fed Hikes being the latest attempts over the past 22mos which has seen $VOO gain 34%. https://t.co/lTfpbZwldr

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Roundhill's filings push the single-sport ETF queue to 120 by Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas' count, a sign issuers are racing to slice one theme thinner than investor demand can support.

More baseball ETFs.. this time from Roundhill.. that's 120 total filed by my count https://t.co/p6XtJyEqsl

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A Chinese startup just took the top spot in non-streaming speech-to-text, cutting its own word-error rate from 4.7% to 1.7% in one release. Transcription pricing power is getting harder to defend for US incumbents.

StepFun has released StepAudio 3 ASR, ranking #1 on the AA-WER Index for non-streaming Speech to Text with 1.7% WER, a notable improvement on StepAudio 2.5 ASR (4.7%) StepAudio 3 ASR is StepFun's new Speech to Text model, available through the StepFun API for non-streaming https://t.co/hF17aMAFo7

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Better coding scores at half the cost per task is the number that matters for anyone paying for agentic inference, and the Luna slip shows the gains are not uniform across the same model family.

GPT-6 Sol (max) gains 2 points in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index at half the Cost per Task of its predecessor, while GPT-6 Luna (max) regresses by 2 points. https://t.co/HIdz1bx3UR

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A new flagship that costs half as much without scoring higher says the money in AI is shifting from capability to cost per token, and inference margins across the model vendors get squeezed with it.

GPT-6 Sol and Luna push the cost efficiency frontier by halving cost relative to GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna. Intelligence Index and Coding Agent Index scores remain level with GPT-5.6, with progress in some evaluations and regressions in others Pricing is approximately half that of https://t.co/eubnxPVsyN

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Taking the benchmark crown and cutting prices 20% at the same time tells you frontier AI pricing power is eroding fast, which squeezes every model vendor's margin math and cheapens inference for the cloud and software names buying it.

Claude Opus 5.5 takes the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, along with a 20% price cut and larger cache hit discount Claude Opus 5.5 brings Anthropic to parity with GPT-6 Astra on evaluations like Terminal-Bench 4.0 and AutomationBench-AA, while extending https://t.co/Hgir4ao3pc

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Musk confirming Grok Bot is live in Tesla cars turns the dashboard into a commerce surface, with in-car ordering as the first monetizable hook. The car AI race just got a shipped product.

RT @SawyerMerritt: Grok Bot has just officially launched in @Tesla vehicles. I got early access a couple weeks ago. You can order stuff on…

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